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Best books to read after Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons's Hyperion is the Hugo-winning Canterbury Tales of science fiction — seven pilgrims, the Shrike, the Time Tombs. These recommendations continue the Hyperion Cantos, explore the literary science fiction tradition, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the ambitious big-ideas SF novel.
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Buy on AmazonThe Fall of Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
The direct sequel and second half of the Hyperion arc — the fate of the seven pilgrims, the Time Tombs mystery resolved, essential reading immediately after Hyperion.
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Buy on AmazonEndymion
by Dan Simmons
The third Hyperion Cantos novel — set 274 years later, Raul Endymion and Aenea, a fresh entry point to the Hyperion universe for readers who want to continue after The Fall of Hyperion.
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Buy on AmazonFoundation
by Isaac Asimov
The galactic civilization companion — Hari Seldon's psychohistory and the long game of civilization, Asimov's series sharing Hyperion's scale and its interest in how history unfolds over centuries.
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Buy on AmazonDune
by Frank Herbert
The ecological galactic SF companion — Paul Atreides on Arrakis, Herbert's novel sharing Hyperion's literary ambition and its interest in religion, power, and civilization at the galactic scale.
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Buy on AmazonA Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge
The big-ideas galactic SF companion — humanity in a universe stratified by intelligence, Vinge's novel sharing Hyperion's willingness to think at the scale of galactic civilizations and to take seriously the implications of posthuman intelligence.
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Buy on AmazonThe Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
The literary SF companion — Genly Ai on the genderless planet Gethen, Le Guin's thought experiment sharing Hyperion's commitment to literary values within the SF genre.
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Buy on AmazonOld Man's War
by John Scalzi
The military SF companion — seventy-five-year-olds rejuvenated to fight an interstellar war, Scalzi's novel sharing Hyperion's interest in soldiers and the human cost of galactic conflict in a more accessible form.
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The Three-Body Problem
by Liu Cixin
The contemporary galactic SF epic — the Earth-Trisolaran conflict across centuries, Liu Cixin's trilogy operating at the same civilizational scale and philosophical ambition as the Hyperion Cantos.
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